Punk Band Website

I'm in the process of making this website for my friend; he's in a punk rock band called Dirty Angelika. I know the enter page doesn't work with the rest of the site, but I plan on changing that; I just wanted to do something Matrixy at the time. Anyway, it's a crappy Geocities account, and the pages are blank, but I'm looking for a decent free service, and I can't put content on the pages until my friend gives me the information. Also, on the three Polaroids on the right side, I'm planning on putting the person's respective photograph. Anyway, please tell me what you think of it so far, constructive criticism is very welcome. The site works well in a 1024x768 resolution. But this is getting a bit lengthy, so I'll just send you to the site, now.

Click Here to go to the Website.

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Please tell me how long it takes to load, roughly, because I only know how it loads on my computer. Thanks!
Also, I haven't made a no frames page yet, so if it doesn't load, that may be why.

It's cool... but I would try to make the splash page themed like the rest of the site...

Its cool, but it took about 2 minutes to load because geocities is a slow son of a bitch(&free)

It looks cool, but there's too many links and.. ow, my load time...

There's plenty of "better"' free web hosting out there. Until they start getting a lot of hits and can start paying for their own hosting, you should look up http://www.freewebs.com .. it's not the greatest, but it's decent.

I know, Geocities blows real bad. Thanks for the freewebs link, too!

Got any ideas to make it load quicker? I don't want to change the site too much, because they really like the website. You know how a lot of sites will have loading bars? I would have put one up, but I have no clue how. You've probably got to do the page in something other than HTML, anyway.

Thanks for all your advice! :D I'll post another link when I get some of these problems taken care of.

Uhhh... Well if you want to preload the images there are javascript/ajax scripts for that, really easy to use, otherwise you'd have to do it in Flash...

Dont host on geocities, they're servers suck, even the paid ones, get freewebs, they much faster.

that is an incredibly well made layout. seriously, it kicks ass. i would probably pay you to make something like that for my band.
Also, im making a website for my band, and i'd liek to know how you put text over the context box image... and how would you update it? thanks in advance :)

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Originally Posted by snap

that is an incredibly well made layout. seriously, it kicks ass. i would probably pay you to make something like that for my band.
Also, im making a website for my band, and i'd liek to know how you put text over the context box image... and how would you update it? thanks in advance :)

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I'm not completely sure what you're asking, but here's the process I used to make the website, hopefully it will answer your question. (Sorry, I'm horrible with terminology in just about everything.)

First, I simply made one solid image in PS. That whole layout is one big ol' image, really (and I do have some changed made, just so everyone knows, I'll post it here today, hopefully, or tomorrow, if not today), and then, after I made the image, I sliced it in ImageReady. After I did that, I took the slices that were in position of where I wanted the content on the site to be, and I made one big image to be the iframe background, and made one cell in that location on the table. In that cell, I put an inline frame that was the same size as all the cuts put together, and placed the new background in a borderless inline frame, so it would be seamless. Then, I just made a bunch of pages to link into the inline frame. So yeah...the content box is just an inline frame. It was actually very simple to make. PS, Imageready, some hotspots, and an iframe are all it took to make that site. If you need anymore help, then please ask me, because I'd love to help you, but I'm terrible with terminology and it might take me a couple tries to explain it well. LoL. But thanks, man, I thought it was a sweet layout, too. :D

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An inline frame would make the site incredibly easy to edit, since it's just a whole new page, you can update each page individually anytime you want.

Yeah, but iFrames suck. The mess the layout up if, for example, you put an image that's wider than the iframe's width, it makes it scroll horizontally. I think it would be so much better, and look so much more professional, if you coded it yourself, unstead of using the Slice tool. I could help if you want.

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Originally Posted by just.xTc

Yeah, but iFrames suck. The mess the layout up if, for example, you put an image that's wider than the iframe's width, it makes it scroll horizontally. I think it would be so much better, and look so much more professional, if you coded it yourself, unstead of using the Slice tool. I could help if you want.

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But see, Iframes ONLY suck if you put an image that's too big in it. ;) How would it look more professional if I coded it myself? The person visiting the website can't tell. I'm not arguing or anything, I'm actually curious. How does it look unprofessional, besides...you know...the fact that it's NOT professional. :D

By the way, I really don't want to use Freewebs. As far as I can tell, you can only upload one file at a time, unless you pay. Neither of those works out for me. Am I just missing something? Or do I actually have to Upload one file at a time?

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Originally Posted by Vicebeach

Nice site, really punk. Also I'd be happy to host it for you as long as theres not gonna be like 500mb movies or anything and the whole internet isnt gonna be visiting the site. :D

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Thanks. :D There are no videos at all, as of now, but they plan on changing that. I'm sure they'd be little, though, and there are a couple of sound clips they want on the site, too. Meh. I'll get all the details later and give 'em to ya.

The coding is horrible. And that's not a surprise since that code is made by photoshop or imageready...
You should slice that image into larger pices and code them to the layout yourself. Using CSS and divs ofcourse. and I think that you shouldn't save images as .jpg files. Try .png or .gif instead.

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Originally Posted by GoldenDragon

The coding is horrible. And that's not a surprise since that code is made by photoshop or imageready...
You should slice that image into larger pices and code them to the layout yourself. Using CSS and divs ofcourse. and I think that you shouldn't save images as .jpg files. Try .png or .gif instead.

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I left them as JPEG because too much image quality was lost for my tastes in GIF form. Other than that, I fully agree with you, about the coding. It is horrible, and I have been thinking about coding it myself with a sliced image.